Wordpress 2.5 delayed
Posted by multippt
Wordpress 2.5 has been delayed, but it should be released within the next few days. The next scheduled release is on the 21st of March, according to Wordpress Trac. Already, some feature changes are now quite visible, particularly the revamped administration panel.
Currently, Wordpress 2.5 have been released as a Release Candidate. By all means try, but it’ll probably be much better to actually wait for the final release which would be due in just 2 days time.
What to expect of Wordpress 2.5
Wordpress 2.5 is a new milestone, and as expected, it’s packed with features. Sadly, these features are visible mainly in the administration interface. However, aside from that, the internals of Wordpress have been changed significantly. The following are some notable changes
-Adminstration interface change: Now much more “Web 2.0″ and professional looking. Some details are removed, particularly those that are not of much use to normal users.
-Posting: The post editor have been revamped and now it looks quite similar to Blogger. Some items will moved, such as image uploading.
-Password protection: More have been done to protect your passwords. New passwords will be stored in a more secure manner. There is also a password strength tool which indicates how good your password is, and ranges from “bad” to “strong”.
-Function profiling: Not really much of a big thing to normal users, but a big help to modders who want to tweak their blog inside out.
-Tag management: The earlier version of Wordpress didn’t have the ability to properly manage tags. Wordpress 2.5 changes that with a nice and convenient way of managing your tags.
-Media management: Same as tag management, and is one of the missing feature of Wordpress. This feature allows you to manage your stuff that you embed in your posts, most commonly images that were uploaded.
